Disclosed is a dual band receiver which includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert a dual band analog RF signal into a dual baseband digital signal; and a first signal extractor configured to generate a first path signal and a second path signal from the dual baseband signal and to extract a first baseband signal using a relative sample delay difference between the first and second path signals, wherein the dual baseband signal includes the first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, the first path signal is a signal obtained by sample delay of the dual baseband signal and then down sampling of a resultant signal, and the second path signal is a signal obtained by down sampling of the dual baseband signal without sample delay.
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1. A dual band receiver comprising: an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert a dual band analog signal into a digital signal; and a first signal extractor configured to generate a first path signal and a second path signal from the digital signal and to extract a first signal using a relative sample delay difference between the first and second path signals.
2. The dual band receiver of claim 1 , wherein the first path signal is a signal obtained by sample delay and down sampling operation to the digital signal, and the second path signal is a signal obtained by down sampling operation to the digital signal.
3. The dual band receiver of claim 1 , wherein the first path signal is a signal obtained by sample delay and decimating operation to the digital signal, and the second path signal is a signal obtained by decimating operation to the digital signal.
4. The dual band receiver of claim 2 , further comprising: a second signal extractor configured to extract a second signal by subtracting the first signal extracted by the first signal extractor from a sample delay result of the second path signal.
5. The dual band receiver of claim 3 , wherein the first signal extractor comprises: a first delay configured to delay the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; a first decimator configured to generate the first path signal by pre-filtering and down-sampling a delay result of the first delay; a second decimator configured to generate the second path signal by pre-filtering and down-sampling the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; a first digital filter configured to filter the first path signal; a second digital filter configured to filter the second path signal; and an adder configured to output the first signal by adding a filtering result of the first digital filter and a filtering result of the second digital filter.
6. The dual band receiver of claim 4 , wherein the first signal extractor comprises: a first delay configured to delay the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; a first down sampler configured to generate the first path signal by down-sampling a delay result of the first delay; a second down sampler configured to generate the second path signal by down-sampling the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; a first digital filter configured to filter the first path signal; a second digital filter configured to filter the second path signal; and an adder configured to output the signal by adding a filtering result of the first digital filter and a filtering result of the second digital filter.
7. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein the second signal extractor comprises: a second delay configured to delay the second path signal; and a subtractor configured to extract the second signal by subtracting the first signal extracted by the first extractor from a sample delay result from the second delay.
8. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein a relative phase difference due to the relative sample delay difference between the first and second path signals is determined according to a sample rate of the analog-to-digital converter, a delay value of the first delay, and down sampling rates of the first and second down samplers.
9. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein each of digital filter coefficients of the first and second digital filters is determined by at least one of a carrier frequency of each of first and second analog signals, a frequency band location index of each of the first and second analog signals, a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter, a sample delay value of the first delay, a down sampling rate of each of the first and second down samplers, and a sign determined according to inversion of a spectrum of each of the first and second signals.
10. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein each of digital filter coefficients of the first and second digital filters is re-calculated when at least one of a carrier frequency of each of first and second analog signals, a frequency band location index of each of the first and second analog signals, a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter, a sample delay value of the first delay, a down sampling rate of each of the first and second down samplers, and a sign determined according to inversion of a spectrum of each of the first and second signals is changed, and the first and second digital filters are reconfigured based upon the re-calculated digital filter coefficient.
11. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein each of the first and second digital filters is determined to satisfy one of equations: S(f)=S A δ (f)+S B δ (f)=R 1− (f)+R 1+ (f), S(f)=S A δ (f)+S B δ (f)=R 2− (f)+R 2+ (f), S(f)=S A δ (f)−S B δ (f)=R 1− (f)+R 1+ (f), and S(f)=S A δ (f)−S B δ (f)=R 2− (f)+R 2+ (f), and wherein S(f), S A δ (f), S B δ (f), R 1− (f), R 1+ (f), R 2− (f), and R 2+ (f) correspond to a spectrum of the output signal of the adder, a spectrum of the output signal of the first digital filter, a spectrum of the output signal of the second digital filter, a negative frequency spectrum of the first signal, a positive frequency spectrum of the first signal, a negative frequency spectrum of the second signal, and a positive frequency spectrum of the second signal, respectively.
12. The dual band receiver of claim 6 , wherein an operating speed of each of the first and second digital filters is determined by a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter and a down sampling rate of each of the first and second down samplers.
13. A dual band signal receiving method of a dual band receiver comprising: converting a dual band analog signal into a digital signal using a single analog-to-digital converter; generating a first path signal and a second path signal from the digital signal; extracting a first signal using a relative sample delay difference between the first and second path signals; sample-delaying the second path signal; and extracting the second signal by subtracting the first signal from a sample delay result of the second path signal.
14. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 13 , wherein the first path signal is a signal obtained by sample delay and down sampling operation to the digital signal, and the second path signal is a signal obtained by down sampling operation to the digital signal.
15. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 13 , wherein extracting the first signal comprising: sample-delaying the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; generating the first path signal by down-sampling the sample delay result; generating the second path signal by down-sampling the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter; filtering the first path signal using a first digital filter; filtering the second path signal using a second digital filter; and extracting the first signal by adding a filtering result of the first digital filter and a filtering result of the second digital filter.
16. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 15 , wherein each of digital filter coefficients of the first and second digital filters is determined by at least one of a carrier frequency of each of first and second analog signals, a frequency band location index of each of the first and second analog signals, a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter, a sample delay value of the first delay, a down sampling rate for generating the first and second path signals, and a sign determined according to inversion of a spectrum of each of the first and second signals.
17. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 15 , wherein each of digital filter coefficients of the first and second digital filters is re-calculated when at least one of a carrier frequency of each of first and second analog signals, a frequency band location index of each of the first and second analog signals, a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter, a sample delay value of the first delay, a down sampling rate for generating the first and second path signals, and a sign determined according to inversion of a spectrum of each of the first and second signals is changed, and the first and second digital filters are reconfigured based upon the re-calculated digital filter coefficient.
18. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 15 , wherein each of the first and second digital filters is determined to satisfy one of equations: S(f)=S A δ (f)+S B δ (f)=R 1− (f)+R 1+ (f), S(f)=S A δ (f)+S B δ (f)=R 2− (f)+R 2+ (f), S(f)=S A δ (f)−S B δ (f)=R 1− (f)+R 1+ (f), and S(f)=S A δ (f)−S B δ (f)=R 2− (f)+R 2+ (f), and wherein S(f), S A δ (f), S B δ (f), R 1− (f), R 1+ (f), R 2− (f), and R 2+ (f) correspond to a spectrum of the output signal of the adder, a spectrum of the output signal of the first digital filter, a spectrum of the output signal of the second digital filter, a negative frequency spectrum of the first signal, a positive frequency spectrum of the first signal, a negative frequency spectrum of the second signal, and a positive frequency spectrum of the second signal, respectively.
19. The dual band signal receiving method of claim 16 , wherein an operating speed of each of the first and second digital filters is determined by a sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter and the down sampling rate.
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